Journey of the Sun

It is said that after Eis Everwise spoke to the trapped god of the crystal pillar, and after the people united, Eis gathered the first , consisting of the wisest Elders divided the sky into the "namin" or hours, and doubled it to account for what could be seen, and what is unseen. The civilization they had come from had shirked nature-based time records and this was a new science to the curious Niechelai.

Eis reckoned that the easiest point to read was when Zha or Aiba were in their highest point. The second easiest hours to consider was that of dawn (Chayz) and dusk (Pesh). Zha and Aiba, which rose and set on opposite sides of the land always passed through each other at the horizon. The light of Zha and of Aiba combined bathed the land in the lavender-colored light whenever Zha rose and Aiba set and when Aiba rose at Zha's settling.

With the hour determined for overhead, and the hours determined for the rising and settling times, they measured Zha as having moved a full measure when the back edge of the burning sphere was directly at the edge of where its front edge had been. They used a system of metal and stone constructions to measure the angles and get them precise. Eis and the Elders calculated eleven parts of the sky that were seen, including the three they determined, and reasoned that there must be eleven parts of the sky that were unseen somewhere well away from them. They named these points between their markers "namin" or hours. Eleven namin made a day, and eleven namin made a night.